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Resources are the basis on which everything in OGame is based. Simply put: whatever you want to do, you need resources to do it. It is only fitting, then, that OMath starts with the basics.

How does one acquire resources?

Strategies to obtain resources can be classified in two categories: offensive strategies (using fleets to take resources from other players) and defensive strategies (building mines to produce your own). This specific article, as its name suggest, focuses on the latter.

Say you want to produce your own resources. You'll need mines for that (for simplicity's sake, we take "mines" to include the Deuterium Synthesizer). And developing mines cost resources.

All mines follow the following pattern. If L is a mine's current level, the cost to improve it to level L+1 will be given by C = B * R^L, where B is ... Read more »